Comments on: Google to Kill Blog Comment Spam?

By: mirc

mirc — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:32:44 +0000

What about nofollow abuse? I used to work for a pretty popular tech information network and the one thing they were in CONSTANT search of was ways to keep all the PR points to themselves,

By: jeux de voiture

jeux de voiture — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:33:33 +0000

Oh !! that would be a put off for some commenters .

By: Alfred Malveo

Alfred Malveo — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:55:01 +0000

What would happen if people started posting for their top competitors in an effort to drive them out of business????

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:14:33 +0000

There’s a big difference between links from blog comments not contributing to PageRank, and links from blog comments not influencing SERPs at all. As everyone knows, low page rank pages can beat much higher page rank pages in SERPs even when both are reasonable matches in content, etc. showing that page rank is not one of the most dominant factors influencing SERPs.

Making links from blog comments of no significance at all would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater, as blog comments that contain valid discussion are a relatively high quality type of content. People reading specialised blogs and commenting on them tend to be predominantly people with specialist knowledge.

What is needed are ways of distinguishing spam comments from valid comments and eliminating the trash. Turing confirmation is perhaps the most obvious of these, and it would benefit everyone (except the spam polluters) to put into place barriers that were very difficult to circumvent for spambots, but very little hindrance for people.

By: ngt

ngt — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:08:05 +0000

Exciting website. Thank you.

By: Gnorb

Gnorb — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:59:24 +0000

What about nofollow abuse? I used to work for a pretty popular tech information network and the one thing they were in CONSTANT search of was ways to keep all the PR points to themselves. They developed campaigns where readers could link to them, but links that went to other pages had to go through a PHP script that in essence stripped any links of PR that might be passed down. (And I’m not talking about spammers or forum posters, I’m talking about links that writers and editors put on the site for the sake of their stories, like technical whitepapers, or online resources. Links didn’t go from point A to point B with maybe a target=”top”, links went from point A to a script which redirected from A to A.1, to A.2, to A.3… then finally to point B.) Could websites simply rel=nofollow everything except maybe paid/traded links? What would be the ethical consideration there, or is there one? Could the abuse of rel=nofollow be considered a type of theft?

By: Articles about link building and PageRank

Articles about link building and PageRank — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

rel="nofollow" attribute to fight spam in comments?
There’s a new rumor about Google… another one! Google might be testing a new mechanism allowing to fight comment spam, by ignoring links that contain a rel=”nofollow” attribute.

Here is a standard link:

By: Threadwatch.org

Threadwatch.org — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

NoFollow - A Non-Solution to Comment Spam

Late last night bloggers all over the world started what im sure will be a very short-lived networked jump for joy as Google,

By: Threadwatch.org

Threadwatch.org — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

NoFollow - A Non-Solution to Comment Spam

Late last night bloggers all over the world started what im sure will be a very short-lived networked jump for joy as Google,

By: Platinax Internet News

Platinax Internet News — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

New nofollow tag cheers bloggers, but fails blogs?
A new tag is to be supported by Google, and it looks likely that Yahoo! and Microsoft will lend some degree of support to it. Publicly claimed to be for the fight against blog spam, it effectively leaves the search…